443-286-9338
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Achim
  • TableTalk
Achim
  • About
    • See Our Latest Newsletter
  • Programs
    • New Upcoming Programs
    • Classes
      • Sunday classes
      • Monday classes
      • Tuesday classes
      • Wednesday classes
      • Thursday classes
      • Friday classes
    • Bar/Bat Mitzva Preparation
  • Inspiration
    • Yached Levaveinu
    • Video Inspiration
    • A Moral Dilemma for the Shabbos Table
    • Inspirational Stories
    • Wonders of Hashem’s Design
    • Parsha Inspiration in Russian
    • Reb Nussie’s Update
  • Blog
  • DONATE
  • Achim
Select Page

Rav Dovid Heber: On Astronomy and Kidush Hashem

by rabbiweiner | Jan 29, 2017 | Yached Levaveinu | 1 comment

Rav Dovid Heber: On Astronomy and Kidush Hashem

1 Comment

  1. Barbara B Bailey
    Barbara B Bailey on August 17, 2017 at 1:25 am

    Very interesting. Thank you.
    Another interpretation might be that the language used “Chatzot Halayla” was not “stam” a nice literary expression, but actually evidence that Shibud Miztzraim (and the Exodus) really did occur!
    That term, if one checks Egyptian writings from the time period of the Exodus, was actually the term the Egyptians used to tell time at night.
    During the day, they used a sun dial – but at night, without sun, an invention called the “water clock” was used. The best that the water clock could do was tell when “half the night” was over, which occurred when the water clock emptied. Of course, the water clock could never be exact, because it depended on humans filling the clock. So, while the degree from Shamayim was exactly “B’chatzot” – in Mitzraim as measured via the water clock, the clock could only approximate that time or “C’Chatzot”

Categories

  • A Moral Dilemma to Ask Your Family at the Shabbos Table
  • Inspiration
  • Inspirational Stories
  • Misc
  • Mitzva Memes
  • This Week's Edition of TableTalk
  • Video Inspiration
  • Wonders of Hashem's Design
  • Yached Levaveinu

Recent Posts

  • Table Talk KI TEITZEI
  • PAYING FOR THIRTEEN YEARS
  • ICHNEUMON WASP
  • A BUILDING OF JOY
  • THE PACKED TAXI
  • About
  • Programs
  • Inspiration
  • Blog
  • DONATE
  • Achim
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
Copyright Achim 2017